This week:

We feature two of Toronto’s Gore-trained Inconvenient messengers, Steven Davis-Mendelow, an aerospace engineer at Bombardier’s Downsview plant, and his son Sammy Davis-Mendelow. Called Lighting the world: Hope and promise in the age of global warming, the talk was held December 6 at Darchei Noam, the Reconstructionist synagogue of Toronto.

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This week:

• We feature a special presentation by Ross Gelbspan, retired journalist, activist and author of Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis. Gelbspan speaks at the University of Toronto about the forces at play over the effort to win the public over on global warming.
• News Director Chris Berube fills in as host.

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This week:

• If you’ve done any grocery shopping lately, or even just flipped through the ads in any glossy magazine, you’ll know that the green bandwagon is getting pretty crowded – everyone, it seems, is pushing some type of green product or service. But are they all legitimate? Often, we the consumers are being Greenwashed – sold an environmental bill of goods. Green Life correspondent and resident skeptic Peter Stock reports.
• We feature Pat Mooney, Director of ETC group to discuss the relationship between food, technology and fuel. Originally aired May 9, 2008.
• Listener Doug Telek points out, with respect to last week’s Tiny Township feature, that there is a discussion paper open for public consultation on waste diversion in Ontario: Toward a zero waste future:Review of Ontario’s Waste Diversion Act, 2002. Comments on the paper are welcomed until January 15, 2009 and should be addressed to Alena Grunwald.

Headlines in brief:

• The Canadian delegation has been accused of obstruction at the UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland.
• Statistics Canada found that, while Canadians are more environmentally conscious, household emissions have increased by 13%.
• A new report released this week shows that far higher than expected amounts of toxic sludge from Albertan tar sands tailing ponds are leaking into the local groundwater.
• A new 400 megawatt power plant is being built over citizen concerns in the York region of northern Ontario.
• International representative are continuing negotiations to present a post-Kyoto climate reduction framework this week.
• New research finds that chemicals are causing fewer men to be born.
• The UN estimates that the world’s consumption of oil will drop this year for the first time since 1983.

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This week:

• Green pundit Kevin Farmer, news director Chris Berube and host Jordan Poppenk discuss the prospect for a green economic stimulus package in Canada.
• Steve Ogden of the Stop Site 41 project speaks to Jordan on the steps of Ontario’s parliament regarding a rally to protect the drinking water in Tiny Township from a landfill that is under construction. Ogden speaks following a five day walk to the provincial capital. The site upon which the  dump would be constructed contains the cleanest aquifer ever discovered, with water so pure it equates to Arctic ice core samples taken from snows deposited 10,000 years ago.
• We feature a talk by Dr. Doug McDonald, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Environment and author of Business and Environmental Politics in Canada, a book about how business reacts to environmental regulatory pressure. This lecture was originally aired on May 16, 2008.

The headlines in brief:

• A commercial ship has passed through the Northwest Passage for the first time in history after a total recession of ice in the passage.
• New Toronto bylaws passed this week include a five cent plastic bag fee for retailers.
• A new report finds that salmon stocks in BC are on the brink of collapse after federal mismanagement.
• The Pembina Institute predicts that further tar sands development could imperil nearly 160 million birds through habitat destruction in the next fifty years.
• Brazil aims to reduce deforestation of the Amazon by 70% over the next twenty years.
• New studies find that climate change could seriously impact food supplies on the Pacific Islands.
• Mexico plans to reduce carbon emissions through new carbon trading plans for industry.

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